June 20, 2014
Third-party optical transceiver supplier Champion Optical Network Engineering, LLC (Champion ONE) has announced general availability of a new 40-km SFP+ DWDM transceiver.
June 9, 2014
Singapore-based company Optic2Connect Pte Ltd. (O2C) says its new optical design software simplifies optical modulator design, shortens product time-to-market and reduces the development costs of silicon modulators.
May 30, 2014
Service provider TDS Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc., has launched a 1-Gbps Internet service in Hollis, NH (a stone’s throw from Lightwave world headquarters in Nashua, NH, and just across the border with Massachusetts). The service, called 1Gig, leverages a GPON-based fiber to the home (FTTH) infrastructure built with the E7-2 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) and 700GE family of optical network terminals (ONTs) from Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX), according to the FTTx equipment provider. Actiontec, meanwhile, announced that it will supply its T2200H Universal Broadband Gateway as the preferred customer premises equipment (CPE).
May 22, 2014
Market research firm Infonetics Research says spending on 100G optical transport hardware continues to escalate, even though global optical spending is down, according to preliminary analysis from its latest quarterly optical hardware report.
May 16, 2014
Hibernia Networks has selected Ciena Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) to provide advanced optical transport capabilities on the Hibernia Networks platform, the vendor says. The first element of Hibernia’s network to use Ciena’s technology will be Hibernia’s trans-Atlantic system.
May 7, 2014
Managed services provider tw telecom inc. (NASDAQ: TWTC) says it is expanding its existing market reach in Louisville as well as Indiana, as part of the company’s expansion plans announced last fall (see “tw telecom announces expansion plans”).